problems with subdivisions function

[immauss]

Hello, I’m putting together a perl script for analyzing a client's logs. I’m able to retrieve country and city from the insights query, but when I try to get the subdivisions, it receive errors. The below code was copied from the documentation at: https://metacpan.org/pod/GeoIP2::Model::Insights#METHODS

$ cat geoip-test.pl

!/usr/bin/perl

use 5.008;

use GeoIP2::WebService::Client;

my $client = GeoIP2::WebService::Client->new( user_id => MyID, license_key => ‘@@@@@@@@@@@' );

my $insights = $client->insights( ip => '24.24.24.24' );

my $subdivision_rec = $insights->subdivision(); print $subdivision_rec->name(), "\n";

$ ./geoip-test.pl Can't locate object method "subdivision" via package "GeoIP2::Model::Insights" at ./geoip-test.pl line 13.

There are some discrepancies in the documentation in that some pages in the documentation use “subdivision” and some use “subdivisions”;

If I add the “s” I’m greeted with the following error:

cat geoip-test.pl ;./geoip-test.pl

!/usr/bin/perl

use 5.008;

use GeoIP2::WebService::Client;

my $client = GeoIP2::WebService::Client->new( user_id => MyID, license_key => ‘@@@@@@@@@@' );

my $insights = $client->insights( ip => '24.24.24.24' );

my $subdivision_rec = $insights->subdivisions(); print $subdivision_rec->name(), "\n"; Can't locate object method "name" via package "1" (perhaps you forgot to load "1"?) at ./geoip-test.pl line 14.

Thank you, Scott

[oschwald]

As you found out, there is no ->subdivision method. The ->subdivisions method returns an arrayref of subdivisions, not a single subdivision, which is why your ->name call fails. A location may have more than one subdivision level. I'd suggest trying ->most_specific_subdivision to get a single subdivision.

I looked at the documentation and I couldn't find any that mentioned a ->subdivision method.

[immauss]

Gregory, Thank you for such a quick response. Yes. I'm seeing there is quite a difference between what is in the *.pm vs what maxmind has on their site for the perl module. (I was looking at their site.) I found the "->most_specific_subdivision, but always receive similar errors:

$ cat geoip-test.pl ;./geoip-test.pl

!/usr/bin/perl

use 5.008;

use GeoIP2::WebService::Client;

my $client = GeoIP2::WebService::Client->new( user_id => MyID, license_key => '@@@@@@' );

my $insights = $client->insights( ip => '24.24.24.24' );

my $subdivision_rec = $insights->subdivisions(); print $subdivision_rec->most_specific_subdivision(), "\n"; Can't locate object method "most_specific_subdivision" via package "1" (perhaps you forgot to load "1"?) at ./geoip-test.pl line 14.

My instinct tells me I'm still doing something wrong, I just can't see it.

Thanks, Scott

[immauss]

Am I calling subdivisions correctly?

nl geoip-test.pl; ./geoip-test.pl 1 #!/usr/bin/perl 2 use 5.008; 3
4 use GeoIP2::WebService::Client; 5
6 my $client = GeoIP2::WebService::Client->new( 7 user_id => MyID, 8 license_key => '@@@@@@' 9 ); 10
11 my $insights = $client->insights( ip => '24.24.24.24' ); 12
13 my $subdivision_rec = $insights->subdivisions(); 14 print $subdivision_rec,"\n"; 15 print $subdivision_rec->confidence(), "\n"; 1 Can't locate object method "confidence" via package "1" (perhaps you forgot to load "1"?) at ./geoip-test.pl line 15.

Shouldn't the print on line 14 output a hash reference instead of just a "1" ?

Thanks, Scott

[oschwald]

Per the docs on MetaCPAN, most_specific_subdivision is a method on the Insights model. You need to do something like:

my $insights = $client->insights( ip => '24.24.24.24' );
say $insights->most_specific_subdivision->name

That said, this doesn't really seem to be an issue against the API. Please direct further questions to support@maxmind.com or use the chat on our website.